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Reading 2 Q Read the text below and answer the ąuestions.

1    Where was Edison bom?

2    Did all Edison’s inventions succeed the first time?

3    Who helped him develop his inventions?

□ Use the prompts to write ąuestions. Then read the text again and answer them.

1    Edison’s teachers / think he was clever?

Pid Edi&orfs teachers think he was clever? No, they didn't.

2    Edison / develop / 1,303 inventions?

3    Why / Edison / think / failures / be / important?

4    Who / he / marry?

5    When / Edison / create / Edison Electric Light Company?

6    What / Edison Electric Light Company / become?

7    Where / he / build / his research laboratory?

8    When / he / die?

Finding Solutions: ThOIttBS AIVB EtUSOIt

Thomas Edison was a great inventor. He mought that eyerytechnologicaL problem had ąsolution Edison dśyeloped morę than 1,093 inventions-They includejlThe electric light bulb, the typewriter and an early,movie camera S^jnebmes he dicL thousands of experiments ttf get an jnydńtion right. He worked on some ideas for many years to improve the product. Edison thought that his failures were important because he and his scientists leamed frorti each One. 'I failed my way to success,' he said.

Important dates

1847 Edison was bom in Ohio in the USA. At

schoot, his teachers thought that he wasn't clever so his mother educated him at home.

1871 Married Mary Stilwell.

1878 He created the Edison Electric Light

Company. Later it became the General Electric Company;

1887 He built an invention factory in Menlo Park, near New York City. It was the world's first research laboratory. A team of scientists helped Edison develop his inventions.

1931 Died in New Jersey, USA.

Speaking Q What inventors come from your country? What did they invent?

□ Do you think it is important to leam from failure? Why?/Why not?

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